Color Emotion and Feeling

1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

Color is the quality of an object with respect to light reflected by the object. Light determines hue, saturation, and brightness or darkness or a shade. Color effects our emotions tremendously; for example the color blue. Blue is said to be trusting and committed. Blue is calming, cooling and aids intuition. Green is tranquil and refreshing, it’s soothing and relaxes the mind. Yellow stimulates the mind and nervous system, it also activates memory; this is why many classrooms are yellow. It is happy and enlightening. Orange is appetizing, my dinning room is orange or for very reason. Red is enthusiastic and energizing. And purple my favorite color is uplifting and calming, spiritual and creative. Colors affect our daily lives and emotions; you may want to think about that before you paint your bedroom.

2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?

Primary colors (red blue and yellow) fascinate me the most because the mixture of other colors cannot make them. They intrigue me the most because they make all of the other colors, but can’t be made.

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?

Feelings are hard to paint so color is used to make these emotions. June Referd uses colors to make feelings in all of her work. Rothko made artwork for the Four Seasons, but they didn’t make it. He hated it and wanted to make paintings that would make the guests feel trapped. This interested me because he knew that by using the colors he did, that it would make people feel a certain way.

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions? 

Mona Lisa is the world’s most famous painting. The smile on her is what we look at. She has a sense of individuality; she is just a person. She’s an ordinary woman who has a mysterious glow and people think she is portrayed as a saint. This has the biggest impact on me because Mona Lisa was just an ordinary woman who I obviously do not know, but the look at her face has so much meaning and emotion behind it. De Vinci painted her not knowing that it would become the worlds most famous painting, or that it would have an impact on millions who view her.